Sunday, September 2, 2012

Bookish Sundays: History of Love

Title: The History of Love

Author: Nicole Krauss

Category: Fiction

Synopsis [c/o Barnes & Noble]: "A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son, and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book… Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill, and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of “extraordinary depth and beauty.”
Overview: A quirkily written novel of love, loss, age and experience.  Krauss has an amazing ability to draw together supposedly unconnected stories into one meaningful tale of acceptance.  I wish I could describe the book in better detail, but honestly, there are no words.  Let me just say that as soon as I put it down, I felt as though I lost a best friend.  It's the kind of novel that I never want to end; not particularly full of happy endings, but lessons abound.  Let me know if you decide to pick it up, and are able to relay the pages better than I.

5 comments:

  1. That sounds really great - maybe I should pick it up for my last summer read before work starts again! Your dog guest seems to be enjoying the book, too! Thanks for the birthday wishes, we had a really great party yesterday =) xo

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  2. I read this last year and I loooooved it. I basically bawled at the end. I want to read it again actually.

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  3. adding it to my Kindle samples!

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  4. Will add to my "must read" list! Just finished "The Piano Teacher" after your book review. Interesting read, but tragic!!

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  5. Really lovely dog! Really love it!

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